Rod Temperton

influence did you feel you guys could have? So there's no kind of secret.

Our biggest records are written by songwriters, people like Wayne Hector, Ali Tennant on our first album.

And on our second album we had some phenomenal writers as well.

There's a skill to songwriting.

And I don't think we appreciated when we were younger the artistry of writing a song.

So thinking about the band, thinking about all five members at the time.

thinking about the lyrics where they need to go where the bridge needs to be where the rise needs to be that's a real skill so um the the main singles came from songwriters but we were able to write across the album now there were five of us we were very headstrong so we couldn't have people people didn't come and say you must do this and anytime they forced us to try and do what they tried to force us to do something we would reject it that's not us that's not how we want to sound that's not how i want to look uh that's not the feel and yeah that kind of boded us well for where we are now because it was always authentic so we were able to push back for sure yeah so you still love the music you made then which is important still love the music but then also we had to take counsel right because there were people from the record label boss management a and r saying guys you might want to release this song so uh one of those songs would be forever forever went to number I think it went to number six in the national charts for us during the Christmas period, massive.

And then we also had Wonderful Tonight, the Eric Clapton cover.

Recorded in 1996 and released in the summer of 1997 as the lead single of Timbaland and Magoo's debut album, Welcome to Our World, the song was released through Blackground and Atlantic Records.

The track, which was produced by Timbaland, shared writing credits with Timothy Mosley, Melvin Barrcliffe, Missy Elliott, and Rod Temperton.

Now, here's what's amazing.

On the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at number 12.

Because on this song, the beat, sparse, but there's the craziness because there's all this open space with it.

And underneath that party feel, there's this hypnotic, uh, vibe that was happening that felt so different from almost everything around it.

The Washington Post picked up on that, saying that those unusual drums, those minimalistic funk keyboards, and subtle interpolation of Heatwave's 1977 classic Boogie Nights, because the track interpolates Boogie Nights, legendary songwriter Rod Temperton received a co-writing credit on the song.

So Timbaland wasn't just looping an old record.

Did Quincy or George Duke have something to do with that? I

think Rod Temperton did.

I don't think this is a Ya rock song.

I'm feeling soul and sexy.

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It's a fact.

In at number 34, Heat Wave, featuring our close friend Rod Temperton, who's stopped returning our calls lately, but hopefully whatever it is we've done...

Since he moved to Hollywood,

got a bit above himself.

Ah!

Notice they've left the G off and replaced it with an apostrophe in the American style.

If it wasn't for the fact that we were close personal friends with Rod, they'd possibly be looking at a banning for that, but let's just move on.

Number 33, it's Motorhead slash Girls School, a band that they've teamed up with, a great bunch of girls, with the song St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

It's Quincy Jones's first album with him.

There's songs on it by by Rod Temperton, of course, by Stevie Wonder, by Macca, by Carol, by a Sega, by Louis Johnson and by Jackson himself.

But it's got a bit of everything.

It's got Don't Stop Till You Get Enough and Working Day and Night, which are like just good disco-y funk sort of songs.

Thriller remains the best selling studio album of all time.

Of course, I can't listen to Thriller and listen to the albums, all of his solo albums in this stage without also remembering the genius of Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton.

Most people don't know Rod Temperton's name.

Rod Temperton, the songwriter for so many of these hits.

Michael Jackson passed away, of course, At the age of 50 years old in 2009.

Heart failure.

Yeah.

Well, actually, you should probably thank Rod Temperton for that part because he sang it to

me.

He said, I want you to play this line.